Noted New York Financier Jesse Seligman Dies in California
The life of Jesse Seligman, prominent New York financier and philanthropist, is recounted from his Bavarian birth to his rise in San Francisco and New York banking. His fortune reached about 10 million, and his charity focused on Jewish organizations including the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. Health failed after a sting of anti-Semitic backlash, and he died peacefully at Coronado, California.
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Hebrew Orhan Asylum
Feminine Ideals And Social Messages In A Seventies Column
A collection of aphorisms and vignettes on women’s roles and manners includes observations on motherhood, thrift, love, and appearance. It contrasts traditional virtues with social expectations, noting thoroughness as success and praising the ideal of a strong yet graceful woman. An oral anecdote about a hairdresser claims blondes symbolize civilization’s beauty and youth.
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Mrs. Fangle
Henry
Mr. Fangle
Lily
Sophie
Quotations on Wisdom and Irony from a Fragmented Reflection
The text presents a series of aphorisms on perception, aging, obituary writing, religious talk, and language. It includes observations about beauty in a looking-glass and the futility of cornering conversations with church members, ending with a stray fragment about light and pronouns.
Grains of Gold Wisdom Fragments on Virtue and Truth
A collection of aphoristic maxims advises on courage envy self denial and truth. It muses that true politeness comes from restraint and that striving for happiness requires virtue. The piece links parental happiness to pleasing God and warns against power seeking eroding liberty.
Sugar beets and Minnesota memories at the Word's Fair
Visitors at the Word's Fair found varied curiosities. A young woman hurried to claim sugar beets at the Agricultural Building. An elderly couple sought the Minnesota Building, planning a half mile trek, and recalled twelve years in Minnesota before moving to Ohio.
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O Hio
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Chicago
Mermaids and Mermaids Lore From The Dugong
A historical note describes the dugong as a large, whale like creature common off Australia. It notes an eight to twenty foot length, human like head, lung breathing, seaweed diet, and fierce reaction when wounded. It mentions long hair in females, facial hair in males, and that its flesh is said to taste of bacon, mutton, and beef depending on the cut.
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Australia
Pacific
Peanut oil fuels French food and soap industries
U S Consul at Marseilles notes peanuts are a key French commodity. First crush yields about 20 percent oil, second 15 to 17 percent. oil sells near 18 dollars per quintal and is used for soap making and salads. Crushed meal feeds stock. shells have little value. Peanuts sell in Marseilles at 5 to 6.37 dollars per 225 pounds. France imported large volumes of peanut products last year.
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United States
Marseilles
France
Where Was He Brought Up
Harvard Professor narrates a tale at a picnic where a New England carpenter uses thick planks to build dinner tables. The Professor initially struggles to translate the dialect sentence about tables and virtues, but eventually deciphers the intended meaning.
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Harper's Magazine
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Ambiguous OCR Note on President Casimir Perier
Fragmentary OCR text recounts a visit by Casimir Perier to his Pont Kur Seine chateau after a presidency. The garbled lines mention a chamber president and a countryman asking a question, but the exact event, date, and outcome are unclear due to damaged source text.
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Foolishly Falling for a Counterfeit Kick Trick
An elderly man from Toledo, riding the Lae Shore line, tries to cash a counterfeit Canadian ten and recounts a tale of a conman exchanging it for five dollars. He jokes about a supposed steam kicking machine and leaves in a daze, while the officers verify the bill’s illegitimacy.
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Det Vil Free Press
Wyandotte
Jefferson Avenue
Feet First Sleeper On Train 21 Causes Stir At Murray
A passenger hanging from the last car truck on Fally branch train 21 near Murray station startled crew and onlookers. The man, later identified as Garrett Willie, claimed he rode the truck for safety after drinking. He slept near a fence after the train left.
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Murray Station
Willie
Dreamland
Diverse Observations From Science and Nature Reports
An English anthropologist discusses Africa and India aboriginal prototypes for stringed instruments. A US report notes lightning damage lower in dense areas, higher in rural zones. London houses a living specimen of the deadly Ophiophagus apis snake. Elevation ranges for evergreen oak and cinchona in mountains are given. Royal Botanic Society notes seeds from mummies often fail to germinate. Humidity and temperature observations compare woods versus open fields in Germany.
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H. Balfour
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India
United States Department of Agriculture
al Xander McAde
Geological Gardens
London
Burma
East Indian
South America
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Royal Botanic Society of England
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B. W. Wichardson
Oen
Germany
Taxation Across Nations Cited In Currency Figures
The article surveys global tax burdens noting England taxes on grave markers and a Chinese empire tax of £4,860,060. It claims U S residents bear the highest overall tax load with an estimated national and local tax total of $11,314,000,000. France Italy Austria and Austria are referenced with various tax figures.
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United States
Corres
France
Italy
Austria
Taxation in history shows heavy burdens and quirky levies
The passage reviews old taxes including stamp duties yielding £1,0,0 per year, and various nations’ annual tax totals. It notes a Window tax from 1695 to 1851, and odd levies like a capitation tax on chopsticks in South China. It also cites Czarist revenue estimates and general tax ideas across Europe.
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Charles IJ
Great Britain
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Germany
Russia
Austria
Italy
William III
George
South
China
Chronology of early scientific and industrial milestones
A compact historical list from 1586 to 1815 noting tobacco in Europe, first newspapers, electricity discoveries, Galileo’s telescope, thermometers, telegraph concepts, coffee in England, tramways, colonization effects, museum origins, indigo, spinning machines, steam power, puddling iron, stenography, the Messenger horse, railways, photography experiments, locomotives, and the Vienna polytechnic institute.
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Galileo
Drebel
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Newcastle
Museum of National History
London
Isaa
Newton
Russia
Sweden
Diestach
Turkey
America
Henry Cort
List
Taylor
Ingland
Wedgewood
Wales
Fulton Sid
Polytechnic Institute
Vienna
Miniature house models spare builders costly regrets
A Boston craftsman makes exact tiny replicas of ten to fifteen unit houses from plans and specs. On a five by four foot platform he builds a model showing roof slope stairs and room proportions so owners can critique design before construction, reducing costly mistakes and disappointments.
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Boston
New York Press
Hue
Adventists in Switzerland Defy Sunday Laws in Basel Printing Plant
In Basel a Seventh Day Adventist printing house named Imprimerie glotte defies Swiss Sunday rest laws by operating on the Sabbath. After escalating fines to 150 francs, director Brother Toiser faces three weeks in prison plus fines, totaling sixty one days for Sunday labor with the Sabbath previously observed.
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Glotte
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Oll
A Would-be Murderer and Victim Form Remarkable Ally
Chicago financier William Sturges lies near death after a failed business venture. A muscular creditor, intent on killing him for 1600 dollars, instead confesses ruin and shoots are fired but no money is found. The pair later become partners in Sturges enterprises.
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Singes
Indian Food Traditions Among American Tribes Described
A historical account details diverse tribal foods across North America. It notes loaves from plant roots, juniper berry dough, bulb cakes, wild turnips, serew beans from mesquite, soap berries, salt grass seeds, and Digger nuts with pine resin sugar. It also mentions pinions, gourds seeds, pulverized crickets, grasshoppers, slugs, and cooking pits.
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Great American Desert
California
Arizona
Oregon
Trapped Cobra Snarls In Tin Cracker Box
A retired British officer recalls killing a cobra in India after it licked crackers from a tin cracker box. The snake wedged its head in the jagged lid, struggled to withdraw, lacerated its head, and lashed with its tail, breaking nearby bottles.
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India
Ice Trade Faces Multibillion Pound Demand
New York City area icemen estimate annual ice consumption across New York, Brooklyn, Hoboken, Newark, and Jersey City at three to four billion pounds. They say this is only half of harvested ice with about 40 percent lost to melting or breakage before delivery.
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New York City
New York
Brooklyn
Hobken
Newark
Jersey City
Immense celery farm drives growth on Delaware swamp land
About ten years ago J. B. LaRue of New York bought several thousand acres on the Delaware east bank. He drained the swamp, creating the largest celery farm in the United States. Last year he raised 1,501,100 bushels on 2,000 acres planted.
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J. B. LaRue
New York
Delaware
United States
Ice Water As A Distasteful Habit In Infants And Adults
The piece argues ice water drinking is an acquired habit rather than natural and compares it to morphine cravings. It notes infants and unaccustomed individuals show distaste and adverse reactions to ice water, labeling it very unhealthy and something to avoid.
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